Two Nvidia workstation GPUs, one Ampere and one Turing: both with 24 GB GDDR6 and 14% more memory bandwidth on the A5000.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 13 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- From
- $0.13 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A5000 | Quadro RTX 6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.23 | $0.13 | 42% cheaper on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Spot | $0.09 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.18 | $0.12 | 29% cheaper on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Median | $1.24 | $0.82 | 34% cheaper on Quadro RTX 6000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A5000 vs Quadro RTX 6000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A5000 | Quadro RTX 6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6 | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 672 GB/s | 1.1x higher on A5000 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 384-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 111.1 TFLOPS | 130.5 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| INT8 | 261 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 27.8 TFLOPS | 16.3 TFLOPS | 1.7x higher on A5000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | NVLink 100 GB/s | 1.1x higher on A5000 |
| Board power | 230 W | 295 W | 1.3x higher on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q3 2018 | 3 years newer on A5000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A5000 datasheet and Quadro RTX 6000 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A5000 /GPU/hr | Quadro RTX 6000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.23 | On-Demand $0.13 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.24 | -- |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.25 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $1.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.56 | -- |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $1.14 | -- |
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $1.38 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.25 | -- |
Akamai Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.50 |
Lambda Labs
|
-- | On-Demand $0.69 |
13 providers list the A5000 and 3 the Quadro RTX 6000. Every listing is on the A5000 page and the Quadro RTX 6000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A5000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000 on Sept. 7, 2026.